Tonight, temperatures will dip into the teens and 20s as the storm lifts into the state from the south. Nikki also coming up on local five news at 10. Its the time when the most cars will be on the road. Headed home from celebrating the holidays. But Winter Weather is bringing with it dangerous road conditions. Nikki a good season so far for brenton skating plaza. Well tell you why their numbers of skaters are up. Nikki thousands are without power. As a massive snowstorm blankets new mexico. Local 5 news at 10 in nikki good evening. Welcome to local 5 news, im nikki davidson. Glad youre with us tonight. Winter weather is headed our way. 98 of iowas 99 counties will be under a storm warning tomorrow morning. For the latest on what you need to know when you wake up. Were sending it over to meterologist Bree Sullivan. Bree . Bree wxcenter a winter storm warning will be in effect for a vast majority of iowa through the day on monday and expire by early in the day on tuesday. Overnight tonight, temperatures will dip into the teens and 20s as the storm lifts into the state from the south. The approaching winter storm will cause travel headaches for monday. Western and central iowa should expect mainly snow, although freezing rain and sleet in the metro are possible. Eastern iowa should expect a mixed bag of freezing rain, rain, and snow as the day progresses. Winds will also be very strong at 1525 mph, gusting to near 40mph at times. There is the potential for Power Outages with this storm, particularly in areas where ice accumulates on the power lines. Possible snow totals with this system range from 5 to 8 in central iowa, so stay with local 5 for the latest. The system will start moving out late monday night with most of iowa remaining mainly dry for tuesday. Beyond our winter storm, the weather limited precip chances and cold temperatures through the extended nikki it is traditionally it is traditionally one of the biggest travel weekends of the year. But a winter storm warning for the entire state of iowa starting tomorrow morning means travel could be dangerous. Local Law Enforcement is urging people to stay off the roads if possible. They say if you cant make it home tonight. You might want to wait until tuesday to hit the roadways. Even the most experienced drivers will want to take it easy with the predicted conditions. Trooper michael clyde, iowa state patrol we always see people who think they know how to drive in icy weather, and those are the people that end up crashing their cars into ditches. You cant drive 70 miles an hour on snow and ice, you cant drive 60 miles an hour on snow and ice. Stranded on the road, be sure to say inside your car where it is safest. They also recommend packing an emergency kit, programming the state patrol into your phone, and bringing something to eat. Nikki and even if youre staying put an important reminder. An emergency snow parking ban for snow removal has been issued. In West Des Moines it will begin at 6 am tomorrow. In waukee at 8 am tomorrow. And in johnston tomorrow. And in johnston at 3 am tomorrow. The parking ban applies to all streets. The fine is 50 and or towing. Check your local government for information on snow parking bans in your area. Nikki a fort dodge family is coping with a Christmas Day tragedy. A six Year Old Girl died last night, after a two vehicle collision early friday morning sent six people to the hospital. While the family faces a devastating loss, the community is already showing its support. Local 5s jacob peklo joins us with more. Jacob bam nikki, some good news to report the two youngest children have been released from the hospital and are now resting at home. A very difficult time, to be sure, but theyre thankful to be receiving support from the Community Around central iowa. Jana bartlett, aunt going to a family christmas to see great grandma and grandpa, and grandpa and aunts and uncles and to have this happen is unbelievable. It just doesnt really seem real. Jana bartlett still cant believe the accident that took place near fort dodge on christmas morning. Jana bartlett, aunt seeing these kids and the parents having to go through all this is absolutely devastating. Police say a jeep traveling eastbound crossed over the center line and struck their pickup truck. The jeep started on fire. Because of the foggy conditions helicopters couldnt fly, so all six people involved in the crash were rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Jana bartlett, aunt we were not clear who was going to webster city, who was coming to fort dodge. Luckily, they all came to fort dodge. Bartlett tells us that justin henry and his from the accident. She started a gofundme page for the family, shortly after the crash, setting the goal at 20thousand dollars initially. But after learning the injuries were far worse than anticipated, the amount was increased to 60,000. Jana bartlett, aunt not being able to help with the kids, and not knowing what to do, theyll need all the help they can get, all the love and support that they can get. All three of their children were taken from fort dodge to blank Childrens Hospital in des moines. The worst injuries were to their oldest daughter, six year old payton. Family members say payton went in for surgery early saturday morning, and was on life support into the evening hours. Saturday night, she died. While payton can never be replaced, her family is standing together, thankful for the work of the Emergency Responders and community support. Jana bartlett, aunt also to the people who have been supporting us, phone calls, texts, the gofundme page, the family really appreciates your really difficult time. Jacob bam the family is continuing to ask for your prayers, as they continue to grieve in the coming days. If youre interested in contributing to their gofundme page, weve placed a link inside this story on our website. Live in the studio, jacob peklo, local 5 news. We are iowa. Nikki 1shot a des moines woman is dead after the car she was riding in rolled into a ditch. It happened saturday night in Greene County on highway 25 north of 280th street. Highway patrol says a chevy malibu was driving down highway 25 when it went off onto the shoulder of the road, thats when the passenger, syndey thomas attempted to grab the wheel to help the driver. Causing an overcorrection and the vehicle went into the ditch, rolling twice. Thomas was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Nikki police in newton are asking for your help locating a missing 12 Year Old Girl. They say Charlene Rachelle Brown was last seen at a residence in newton. The 12 year old is described as a white female, 52, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing flannel pajamas. If you have any information about her whereabouts, contact the Newton Police department at the number on your screen. Nikki this milder weather has actually meant good fortune for a local skating park. Brenton skating plaza in Downtown Des Moines has had more days open this year than they did one year ago. One year ago, theyd already had to close 12 times for bad weather. This time around, its only been once. Plaza workers say the milder weather is only really an issue if its really sunny. Guests say they dont mind either. Tracy barnes, tingley, iowa, resident its nice, its cold outside, but as you skate its warm. Its good weather, its not snowing or raining. Taylor coglianese, austin, texas resident i love it, i miss the cold weather and the snow and the ice. So, this is great for me. The brenton skating plaza is open seven days a week. Check out this open seven days a week. Check out this story on our website for a full list of hours of operation. Nikki two sioux city churches will soon become one beginning in the new year. Morningside presbyterian and Third Presbyterian Church will become faith united presbyterian. The merger comes after decades of declining membership. Morningside presbyterian and Third Presbyterian Church will soon merge into one on januaray 1st and will hold services at the morningside location. For more than 30 years,the churches have seen a decline in the number of members both churches are hopeful that the consolidation will help build relations in the community and with the congregations future. Its our effort in cobining our resources so that we can put out our ministry into the people. Not only in the nighborhood, but in sioux city and beyond. To use what we still have and the possiblity to build new things , nikki members of both churches say theyre excited for whats to come and believe reaching out to the Younger Generation is what is next on the agenda. Nikki on our farm to family this week for those of you who think those reindeer that stopped by your houses on Christmas Eve only live in the north pole. There are a few farmers who raise reindeer right here in our state. Local 5s claire on Jane Bethards southern iowa farm. Youll see the usual farm animals. Go in and why dont you feed but as you follow the fence. The unusual start to appear. They say no really are they real, i say no theyre cattle we put antlers on no thats not rudolph, thats rebecca and holly. Shes the one that wants to go visit everybody me in shot and 7 month old woody. Four years ago, jane had an odd Christmas Exchange that started her love for reindeer. I asked if shed be willing to trade reindeer for cats, for her, i got 2 adults cats, 1 kitten and 200 dollars little short legged cats started us in our reindeer since then, the reindeer bussiness has taken flight and her two little helpers elijah and isiah are there everyday im coming in leading them along. Do you want to walk her for a minute . Deer running theyre here a lot of the time, walk them, help feed moving and helping out wherever they can. Because every year around christmas time, rebeccas calendar starts to fill up. They go to a lot of the shows with us and they like to help out with reindeer shes going to get you a bell real quick. One event after the other, after the other what do you say . Thank you and Merry Christmas it takes a toll on the star of the show who will be cutting back next year. But not before making the kid kids come running up to them because theyre magic, they fly, theyre santas reindeer nikki nikki coming up on local 5 news at 10. Snow may be coming our way. But its already hit someplace more unusual. New mexico is dealing with up to 21 inches of snow. And. Its the couple in red suits. How they created a christmas miracle for a family going through some bad luck. Bree and ill have your forecast ahead stephanie monday on good morning iowa. Well go over christmas in the metro, if a winter storm will affect travelers heading back from the holiday. And well look ahead to the hawkeyes preparing for the rose bowl game on new years day. Sam and in your forecast, not only the potential for snow and cold. We have been looking for winter and i think we found it at the end of next week. Stephanie thats monday on the all new good morning iowa. Now, we are iowas most accurate forecast certified by independent weather experts nikki the governor of new mexico has declared a state of emergency its as a massive blanketed a good portion of new mexico. Nikki a blizzard warning is in place for all of eastern new mexico. The winter storm has dumped up to 21 inches of snow in some areas. Snow drifts as high as eight feet are making many roads impassable. That includes interstate40, which is closed in some parts. Officials say more than ten thousand homes are without power in eastern new mexico. The governors emergency order activates the National Guard to help stranded drivers. Counties will be able to order and pay for Additional Resources to help. Bree wx wall weather adlib a winter storm warning will be in effect for a vast majority of iowa through the day on monday and expire by early in the day on tuesday. Overnight tonight, temperatures will dip into the teens and 20s as the storm lifts into the state from the south. The approaching winter storm will headaches for monday. Western and central iowa should expect mainly snow, although freezing rain and sleet in the metro are possible. Eastern iowa should expect a mixed bag of freezing rain, rain, and snow as the day progresses. Winds will also be very strong at 1525 mph, gusting to near 40mph at times. There is the potential for Power Outages with this storm, particularly in areas where ice accumulates on the power lines. Possible snow totals with this system range from 5 to 8 in central iowa, so stay with local 5 for the latest. The system will start moving out late monday night with most of iowa remaining mainly dry for tuesday. Beyond our winter storm, the weather quiets down with and cold temperatures through the extended nikki plus. Coming up on local 5 news nikki at ten a fire destroyed one families before the holidays. Then a couple stepped in with a big surprise. Well bring you the story. Nikki next. A city threatened by the sea. Why a popular place in thailand could be destroyed. Next. Quad cities got a helping hand this christmas after their garage was destyed in a fire. Abcs sarah kate and joshua vrieswyk havent always had the happiest of holidays, between joshs 8 years as an active duty marine and Health Emergencies due to kates lupus. And after a fire destroyed the vrieswyks garage this week, they say theyre just happy they have a home this holiday. However. They werent sure how they would give their three kids a christmas. The childrens gifts were stored in the garage. kate wrieswyk weve always worked hard to give our kids whatever they need, or even try to give them what they wanted and for us to think that it was all going to be taken away from them. And they did nothing to deserve that. It was really hard. When santa and mrs. Claus heard what happened from a close friend, who also happens to be the vrieswyks neighbor. They knew they had to help. They brought all three kids toys, a gift for mom and dad, and gifts for the vrieswyks neices whose gifts also got destroyed in the fire. nats josh vrieswyk that you know they came. A lot of excitement in the kids, and let them know that santa and theyre might have been a bad thing that happened to the house and the garage and all of that stuff, that you know theres still joy. mrs. Claus its like you want to keep the happiness going. You know theres so much bad stuff in the world, and you want to spread the cheer and let people know there are good people out there. The kids grandmother, twla lang works at the Quad Cities International airport. And during santas visit. She made sure to give the duo a big hug and thank them for giving back christmas to her daughters family. nats of twla lang my daughter they were in a bad way and you made their christmas. Making sure the kids could always remember christmas as a happy time, despite the circumstances, was the only motive behind santa and mrs. Clauss visit. The joy i get from giving to these people is all the reward i need, it makes me feel so, so good. sarah from the north pole all the way down to the quad cities. Santa and mrs. Claus share the spirit of christmas wherever they go. Sarah greene local 4 news. Nikki our next iowans to know . Email us at news at we are iowa dot com. Or call us in the newsroom 1 8008585555. Were on facebook we are iowa local 5 news and twitter we are iowa 5 news if you see news break. Let us know. Nikki a very special top 5 plays tonight. Jordan the High School Football season has been over for more than a month, but were finally giving them the top 5 treatment. Up next we countdown the top 5 football plays of the year. Well be right back. Youre watching local five news at 10. Now, local 5 sports jordan welcome back, High School Football wrapped up just before thanksgiving, i had planned on unveiling our best of the best from the gridiron a few weeks ago, but one thing led to another, anyways now were here. Our top 5 plays of the year were how good they were. The order however was not. Lets check out our top 5 football plays of the year all made by local athletes. Play number five. Comes from november 2nd se polk taking on dowling. Rams reaching into their bag of tricks. Thomas mclaughlin looks like hes changing the call, but hes not. The rams snap the ball to cole hauser who flips it to jackson cole, cole then fires it back to mclaughlin into the endzone for the touchdown look at this one more time. This is impressive for a few reasons, dowling quickly snuffed this out and secondly, cole throws this off his back foot wow rams finished the season 65 under first year head coach brad zelenovich. Play number four. Is from week one of the season pella versus washington. Washington down early going to the air. Unfortuantely that is payson vande lune air space that is just wow check it again. The pass is tipped by avery van zee. Vande lune composure, bobbling it, catching it and to top it all of, getting both feet in bounds. That is an interception at the high school level, the College Ranks and even in the nfl payson vande lune, what a name, what a catch play number three. Comes from the 4a title game. Dowling versus kennedy down 70, the cougars try and comeback, but wait. Ryan mells is going the other way . What the heck happened . The handoff gets bobbled, and literally finds mells hands as if he was the running back. The big guy is headed to the Promised Land that made it 130 and dowling never looked back. 4as first ever threepeat. Mells will be back next year joining Jacob Zachary and a whole load of talented juniors. Tom wilson with an embarassment of riches at dowling. Play number two. Also comes from van meter versus western christian. Ben trent and Anthony Lowman made top 5 once before this, but this play takes the cake are you kidding me i dont believe what i just saw check this out again. The pass to lowman appears to be tipped, bobbled by lowman, punched up